Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals.... museum housed at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University , located in Provo, Utah, United States, is a Private education, coeducational research university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints .... in Provo
Provo
Provo was a Dutch counterculture cultural movement in the mid-1960s that focused on provoking violent responses from authorities using non-violent bait.... , Utah
Utah
The State of Utah is a western United States U.S. state of the United States. It was the List of U.S. states by date of statehood admitted to the United States on January 4, 1896.... .
The museum is named for M. Lamont Bean, a wealthy Seattle-based entrepreneur who funded the museum's construction.
The Bean Museum opened in 1978, and is accredited by the American Association of Museums. It maintains collections of vascular
Vascular
In zoology, "vascular" means "related to blood vessels", which are part of the Circulatory system. An organ or tissue that is vascularized is heavily endowed with blood vessels and thus richly supplied with blood.... and non vascular plants, and invertebrate
Invertebrate
An invertebrate is an animal lacking a vertebral column. The group includes 98% of all animal species ? all animals except those in the Chordate subphylum vertebrate .... and vertebrate
Vertebrate
Vertebrates are members of the subphylum Vertebrata, chordates with Vertebras or Vertebral columns. The grouping sometimes includes the hagfish, which have no vertebrae, but are genetically quite closely related to lampreys, which do have vertebrae.... animals.
